Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

has given?
God is the one who orders all things. Have you
not had any idea that this movement made by
Brother Hickox was under the ordering of God?
Did not the Lord see that you might not deal with
his servant wisely? Did he not see that he needed to
do service in some other part of his vineyard, just
where he is? He who is the orderer of all things, he
who numbers the hairs of our head, worked
through his Spirit to transfer him to a field where
he could do greater good, just as the careful,
tender, earthly father would do in the interests of
his children; only our God is infinitely more
watchful over the interests of his sons and his
daughters. He is too wise to err, and too good to do
them harm. He has a wise love, a great and
unbounded love. "Are ye not of more value than
many sparrows? and yet your heavenly Father
feedeth them."
The Lord will by his own methods, break up
this indifference of man toward his fellow-man. He
will educate and train and discipline his children, O
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